Jackson v. Waller’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc. (1957), Jenkins v. United States (1962)
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pratt, Read & Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Harris v. Hipsley · Heslin v. Malone · Ward v. Brown · Barber's Appeal From Probate
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fundamental test of the testatrix's capacity to make a Will is her condition of mind and memory at the very time when she executed the instrument. Nichols v. Wentz , 78 Conn. 429 , 435 62 A. 620 : Sturdevant's Appeal , 71 Conn. 392 , 401 , 42 A. 70 ; Kimberly's Appeal , 68 Conn. 428 , 439 , 36 A. 847 ; 1 Schouler, Wills, Executors Administrators (6th Ed.) § 97. While in determining the question as to the mental capacity of a testator evidence is received of his conduct and condition prior and subsequent to the point of time when it is executed, it is so admitted solely for such light as it may afford as to his capacity at that point of time and diminishes in weight as time lengthens in each direction from that point. Canada's Appeal , 47 Conn. 450 , 463 ; Cullum v. Colwell , 85 Conn. 459 , 465 , 83 A. 695 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.